Editorial October 7, 1950 Issue

OUR ENLISTMENT

Robert Ellis Key

Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 450), "The Christian Scientist has enlisted to lessen evil, disease, and death; and he will overcome them by understanding their nothingness and the allness of God, or good."

The student of Christian Science does not balk at this demand or wish to claim exemption from this enlistment. He desires to help humanity out of the bondage of suffering, and this unselfed love assists him in his own redemption. Christian Scientists are soldiers of the cross. They can march with Truth, in tune with Love, because the music of their march is the harmony of Spirit. They are grateful for the opportunity to serve mankind, conscious that they are clad in the whole armor of God and can use the weapon of spiritual understanding with precision.

A Christian Scientist should be in the vanguard of progress because he has learned something of the allness of God, good, and the nothingness of evil. He deals with evil by conceding to it no power, presence, or prestige. He can march on regardless of error's threat of strength or its imposing appearance. He can be of good courage because he knows the way. He has a faultless Way-shower, a trusted Leader, a highway on which to travel, and a spiritual objective which he can reach safely.

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